Re: [OT] A new web browser‽

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 16-04-2016, at 03:44, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 14-04-2016, at 09:07, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>>> (...)
>>>> Eric, do you mean the dlbsnail and S3.dlbsnail? Or do you mean the
>>>> "LinkDownloads"? The last one I've not been able to get to work (seems to
>>>> do nothing).
>>>
>>> I only installed the dlbsnail, and I think it works okay.
>>
>> Understood, thanks.
>>
>>
>>> (...)
>>> Apart from that, though, this setup is fairly Conkeror like. Just
>>> faster, and with fewer mysterious silent crashes!
>>
>> Faster? How did you do that? For me it is slower, noticeably (I estimate no
>> less than 3 to 4 times; from less than one second to about two or more
>> seconds in many simple tasks such as opening a link from a email under
>> emacs; yes, I am reusing a running firefox with "--new-window"). I guess I
>> might need to disable extensions, etc?
>
> I'm not the right one to ask, I'm afraid -- I have no idea! I try hard
> not to use browsers at all, and don't really have any plugins installed.
> Conkeror used to struggle mightily just to keep up with my typing (and
> this is not a boast about my typing speed, sadly), and regularly
> "stopped to think" for several seconds. I never really looked into it...

Thanks for the clarification.



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